Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Michael Wu, Chief Scientist at Lithium (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: Can you double click down into each of those two cases and give us examples of what data you track and what kind of behavior you are trying to stimulate by tracking it? Michael Wu: Both communities – whether it is the support community or the marketing community – run on our platform.

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Michael Wu, Chief Scientist at Lithium (Part 1)

Michael Wu is the chief scientist at Lithium. Lithium, as the company’s own website says, helps companies unlock the passion of their customers, providing a platform that customers can use to interact with these companies. Lithium is a social customer experience company with a collective 91 million users each month (more than Pinterest or LinkedIn),

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Thought Leaders in Big Data: Interview with Rick Kieser, CEO of Ascribe (Part 4)

Sramana Mitra: We have done a story on Clarabridge, and I met the founders of Attensity a long time ago, when they were just starting up. Can you talk about the technological point of view? Who is doing what, and how would you rate those approaches? Rick Kieser: I mentored a firm that was a

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190th Roundtable For Entrepreneurs Starting NOW, Live Tweeting By @1Mby1M

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Today’s 190th FREE online 1M/1M roundtable for entrepreneurs is starting in 30 minutes, on Thursday, October 3, at 8:00 a.m. PDT/11:00 a.m. EDT/8:30 p.m. India IST. Click here to join. All are welcome!